Automount share point

How do I automount share points for users that aren't home folders? I'm trying to do it by making a group, and having the home folder for the group automount, because I want all members of the group to be able to have this share point automounted, but I've only been able to get it to automount the actual "Groups" share point. It also automounts the "Users" share point as well, which is undesirable, and I can't seem to figure out how to make it stop. I'll read up on it some more I guess.

Does this page contain anything useful?
(15711)

Similar Messages

How do I get automounting share points with to appear on user's computers?

I recently purchased Sever 10.6, and upgraded to 10.6.8. I'm running it on a 2006 MacBook Pro with 4GB (only 3GB are addressed on this model). I really only need it for one thing: to serve 4 external drives to my home network. But I can't do this: I want to set up automounting share points with custom paths so that on login the disks appear on the user's desktop and/or in the sidebar. Clients range from 10.6.8 to 10.8.x to 10.9.x.
I've tried setting the sharepoints. I don't know what to put in for a custom path; trial and error has gotten me nothing. I don't want home directories, libraries or application folders - I just want those disks shared to computers on my network.
The little manual that comes with it is not helpful. If there's a written document somewhere that is specific about this, I'd be happy to just read it myself.
Thanks!
Sean

Hi Sean Hayes1,
Volumes, including server volumes, that mount at startup are controlled on the client computer using System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. The preference pane says this is for applications you want to launch at startup, but it also works for network mounts. See this article -
OS X Mavericks: Login Items pane of Users & Groups preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14413
To add a new volume -
To have an item open automatically at login, click Add (+), then select the item.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Automount Share points not showing up?

So I've got a Share point named 'Documents', 'Enable automount' is check and it has a custom path of '/Network/Documents'. (BTW, is the appropriate place for that?)
When I log in as a user I can see that the directory '/Network/Documents' is being created (by clicking on 'All...' in the finder sidebar), but nothing useful is happening with it... double-clicking on it takes me into the folder about 0.5 to 1 second then "redirects" me back to the 'Network' folder.
I don't get usable icons (on the desktop) for the 'Documents' share until I go Shared > MyServer > Documents ... only then do I see the share point in any sort of usable state.
Am I missing something? I assumed that making something automount would place it on the desktop or the sidebar or something when the user logs in.

+I assumed that making something automount would place it on the desktop or the sidebar or something when the user logs in.+
No. An automount only works if your server is configured to host a shared LDAP domain (OD Master) and the client is bound to that domain (so that it can read the mount record).
With that said, there are two types of automounts available via AFP:
*A Dynamic Automount*, which is typically used for the home directory share point(s). Dynamic mounts "eject" and remount as the user who is logging in at login time. The mount path is configured automatically in /Network/Servers.
For example, a share point configured to automount (located at /Volumes/Data/Homes on the server with name myserver.myco.lan) will dynamically automount at this path on the client:
/Network/Servers/myserver.myco.lan/Volumes/Data/Homes
*A Static Automount*, which is typically used for sharing common files; a shared Library is an example. Static automounts mount at /Network/mountname, and are done at startup time. Generally speaking, these will only work if one of the following is true:
1. AFP Guest access is on for the share point being statically automounted. (Make sure that AFP guest access is on for the AFP service and on for the share point. Disable it for any other share points that don't need AFP guest access.) In this case, the automount will be mounted as the AFP guest user, not the currently logged-in or connected user.
2. The client system is bound to an Open Directory Master via directory binding, and Kerberos is working properly on the master. In this case, the static automount will mount as the logged-in user.
If you just want to make a share point mount automatically at login time, consider adding the AFP share point's URL to the user's login items instead of creating an automount. This will mount the share point in the "classic" manner, where it appears in the Computer window and on the Desktop.
To do so, you can manage the login items (loginwindow.plist or com.apple.loginitems.plist) for the user or group via Workgroup Manager. Open TextEdit (for example), and type the URL for connecting to the share point - afp://myserver.myco.lan/stuff, for example - and drag that text onto the Desktop to create an AFP Internet Location file. Then drag that file into the login items section of Workgroup Manager to add it.
If your server has Kerberos running, you're set. When a client logs in, he/she gets a Kerberos TGT from the KDC and a service ticket for AFP which mounts the share point; no name and password to re-enter. If not, you can check the "connect with user's name and password" box in the login items section of Workgroup Manager to have login window hold the user's name and password temporarily and enter it for him/her.
Also note that Leopard clients don't automatically show mounted share points on the Desktop (but they do appear in the Computer window of the Finder and in the SHARED section of the sidebar). If you'd prefer to have users see shares on the Desktop again, you can manage that via Workgroup Manager's Finder preferences section.
Hope this helps!
--Gerrit
Message was edited by: Gerrit DeWitt

Custom NFS share point directory showing up on all network machines

Hi,
I'm in the process of migrating our 10.4 PowerMac server to a Mac Pro (running 10.5). I've been trying to recreate our 10.4 server setup as much as possible and so far I've only come across one annoying issue.
We have fink installed on the server and under our 10.4 setup the /sw directory was set up as an NFS automounted share point with a custom mount point of '/sw'. I.e. users logging into client machines saw a /sw directory and could work with that. This made it easier to add fink packages as I only needed to do this on one machine (the server). This setup worked very well under 10.4 and had been working stably for the last couple of years.
As we now have (for another month or two at least) a mix of intel and Power PC machines, I don't want to share out the (intel) server version of fink to all clients. In Server Admin, I have chosen to set the NFS protocol options to specify the IP address of just one client (an intel machine). I am only using NFS to share this directory. The plan is to add more client IP addresses as we get more intel machines.
This works for the one intel client machine. Logging in via the GUI or via ssh allows you to run programs located under the /sw directory. The problem is that a phantom /sw directory appears on all client machines, even though their IP addresses are not specified in Server Admin. The /sw directory has root/wheel permissions (for user/group) and attempting to list its contents returns 'Operation not permitted' (even with 'sudo ls /sw').
If I use Directory Utility to remove the connection to the Directory server on our main server, then the /sw directory becomes owned by root/admin and I can remove it (it appears empty). Reconnecting to the Directory Server changes the permissions back to root/wheel. It is also worth noting that when I first installed fink on the server (in /sw) the act of making this a share point also changed the permissions on /sw to root/wheel meaning that I couldn't access the fink programs that I had only just installed (this forced me to reinstall fink in /Volumes/Data/fink).
Has anyone else noticed this behavior? It almost seems like Server Admin is not honoring the list of IP addresses that are being listed as targets for client machines. I had planned to install fink locally on the PowerPC clients until we upgrade them to intel machines. However, I would then also have to install fink somewhere other than /sw as I can't write to that directory. I would presume that this behavior should happen on any NFS share point that is trying to automount to a custom mount point on a client. Can anyone else verify this?
Regards,
Keith

As a footnote. I have now removed my shared fink installation. It is no longer listed as an NFS sharepoint in Server Admin and running the 'showmount -e' command does not list it. However, a /sw directory is still being created on the server and on the client machines on our network.
This is perplexing and frustrating. There is no sharepoint any more. I rebooted the server but it makes no difference. I removed the /sw directory (on the server) by booting the machine in target firewire mode and removing it by using a 2nd machine. But following the restart, it appeared again.
This suggests that once you make any custom mountpoint (using NFS sharing) then you will forever be stuck with a directory at the root level of all your clients which you can not remove.
Keith

Share Point folder size limit - File Services

I created a new folder inside a share point using Server Admin. Is there a way to set a folder size limit (quota) for that folder.
P.S. I am NOT talking about user accounts quotas for home folders created using Workgroup Manager! ...Just any new folder created, to be used on any volume, is there a way to set a mamimum size?
For example I have a 1TB volume on my Xserve RAID. I create a new folder but want to set its maximum capacity to 200GB. Is that possible?
Thank you very much in advance for any feedback.

There's no direct way to set a limit on a folder size.
The 'simplest' method I can think of is to create partitions on your disk of the appropriate sizes and share these - they will have inherent size limits based on the size of the partition. It's a little messier but should solve your issue.
:: thinking :: you might be able to use disk images rather than partitions, although I've never tried sharing a mounted disk image, and you'd need to address automounting the disk images when the server starts, so it might not be viable.

Virtual share points - SMB - not working

My colleague made some adjustments on our sharing over the weekend. To trouble shoot some performance issues he disabled automount on one of our xserves. Since then virtual share points in SMB no longer work. Users can access their folders with the path \\server\user shares\username
I have enabled the automount on the user share but it hasn't made any difference. I have tried to change settings under advanced in SMB but they revert automatically when I click save.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Paul

Same problem here. I can't switch off virtual sharepoints. They came back on when pressing "Save".

Automounting shares

Ok, I realize this should be really easy, but does anyone know how I can have share points auto-mount on client machines? In setting up my new server, I've got the groups and users pretty well sussed out, and even have the machines logging in via the server, but I can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong here.
I've set the sharepoints to be seen by the appropriate users and groups, and I can connect to them on the network from various machines. But selecting "Enable Automount" for the volumes in Server Admin doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
For the protocol, I'm choosing AFP (not sure what this'll mean for the Win boxes), and a custom mount path of /Volumes/share name. I'm guessing this is wrong? None of the other options seems correct.
And now, for some reason, none of the machines will even SEE /Volumes. I've had to take them off the directory.
This is on a Mac Mini with OS X Server 10.6.4, BTW. And yes, I'm a total n00b to OS X Server.

"I've set the sharepoints to be seen by the appropriate users and groups, and I can connect to them on the network from various machines. But selecting "Enable Automount" for the volumes in Server Admin doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong."
What exactly do you mean by "can connect...from various machines" and "doesn't seem to work"? You set up the Enable Automount and I'm assuming you gave them proper permissions. If that's all good, then it seems like it should be working to me. When you open up the finder, is anything showing up there? Or at least, did it at one point, as I noticed you said later they're not seeing them now (unless they're not seeing ANYTHING in /Volumes, which seems like a major problem to me since even your local HDs should be there...)?
I don't know as the actual mount path you choose really makes much of a difference other than where the client shows it being connected at, but I could be wrong (I've never noticed any issues regardless of what I chose for that).
Now, if you're able to get to the share point by going through the finder but simply want them to show up on the dock, that needs to be set up in WGM in the Login and Dock prefs (someone else will need to give specifics for this, since I'm not at my server until prob Tues and don't remember the exact details off the top of my head). Come to think of it, you may need to set it up in the Login section anyway, which may be your problem (not 100%, since I've always done all 3 points--set up in Server Admin, and both Login and Dock prefs in WGM). Basically, use WGM on a client machine and add the share point into the "Items" section in the Login prefs and check the Authenticate with user's login (or something to that effect--first checkbox there), but that's all I remember explicitly without looking at mine for more exact syntax.
For the AFP thing for your Windows machines, it'll probably be as simple as turning on the SMB protocol to allow them access, but you'll probably want to get the AFP connected sorted out first anyway.
Message was edited by: Rikakiah

What is difference between distribution list and share point group? Can we add distribution list into person and group column of share point list?

what is difference between distribution list and share point group? Can we add distribution list into person and group column of share point list?

there is a workaround you can try, create audience and add DL to them and deal with the audience or convert DL to groups
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/02f0d773-8188-4d94-a448-0c04d838b0cf/distribution-lists-in-sharepoint?forum=sharepointgenerallegacy
Kind Regards,
John Naguib
Technical Consultant/Architect
MCITP, MCPD, MCTS, MCT, TOGAF 9 Foundation
Please remember to mark your question as answered if this solves your problem

How to configure SharePoint HNSC with a reverse proxy server so that HNSC Share Point URLs are not exposed to end users.

Could you please let me know how SharePoint HNSC can be configured with a reverse proxy server so that HNSC Share Point URLs are not exposed to end users.
In normal path based site collections/web applications, reverse proxy configuration can be done using alternate access mappings with Public URL = "proxy URL", internal = "HNSC Share Point URL" so that share point sends response back
to Public URL = "proxy URL".
In Host Named Site Collections, alternate access mappings are not supported. Each HNSC is designed to have only one URL in each zone. Zone is one of the five zones(Default,Intranet,Internet,Custom,Extranet) with each of which only one alternate
URL is associated. This is what we are able to get using power shell command "Set-SPSiteUrl", but this will not help us to get the response back to proxy URL after a request sent to share point because we could not find any mechanism in share
point HNSC to respond to a different URL(proxy URL). Consequently, Share Point URLs are exposed to external users.
Below share point article in MSDN blog is symmetrical to what we are observing with Share Point 2013 and Proxy Server. It mentions that internal HNSC URLs can’t be hidden using any proxy server. If hiding the internal Share Point URLS is a requirement,
it suggests to use a web application instead of host named site collections.
Though I’m also observing the same behavior with Share Point 2013 HNSC, Could you please confirm my understanding is correct.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2012/03/27/what-every-sharepoint-admin-needs-to-know-about-host-named-site-collections.aspx
Excerpt from above article-
"Host Named Site Collections Only Use One Host Name
Continuing on the discussion on AAMs and host named site collections, you cannot use multiple host names to address a site collection in SharePoint 2010. Because host-named site collections have a single URL, they do not support alternate access mappings and
are always considered to be in the Default zone. This is important if you are using a reverse proxy to provide access to external users. Products like Unified Access Gateway 2010 allow external users to authenticate to your gateway and access a site
as http://uag.sharepoint.com and forward the call to http://portal.sharepoint.com. Remember that URL rewriting is not permitted. Further, a site collection can only respond to one host name. This means if you are using a reverse proxy, it must forward the
calls to the same URL. If your networking team has a policy against exposing internal URLs externally, you must instead use web applications and extend the web application using an alternate access mapping."<u5:p></u5:p>

Hi Satish,
You are right that only one URL is allowed for each zone of the host-name site collections in both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.
It is by design that each host-name site collection only support one URL for each zone.
The article below is about RTM version of SharePoint, and it is the same for SharePoint 2013 with the latest CU.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2826457
So to make the URL of HNSC not exposed to external users is not supported, you need to use path-based sites instead.
Best regards.
Thanks
TechNet Community Support
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact
[email protected]

How to get list data and bind to data table or Grid view in share point 2010 using j query

hi,
How to bind list data in to data table or grid view using Sp Services.
How to use sp services in share point 2010 lists and document library

Hi, You can use List service, SPServices and JQuery to get your requiement done-
See here for an sample implementation -
http://sympmarc.com/2013/02/26/spservices-stories-10-jqgrid-implementation-using-spservices-in-sharepoint/
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/343934/jqGrid-Implementation-using-SpServices-in-SharePoi
Mark (creator of SPServices) has some good documentation on how to use SPServices-
http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=%24().SPServices
SPServices Stories #7 – Example Uses of SPServices, JavaScript and SharePoint
http://sympmarc.com/2013/02/15/spservices-stories-7-example-uses-of-spservices-javascript-and-sharepoint/
Hope this helps!
Ram - SharePoint Architect
Blog - SharePointDeveloper.in
Please vote or mark your question answered, if my reply helps you

Files copied from AFP share point are unwriteable by client

This is the same issue as: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8044984
Has anyone found a fix yet? Basically, when copying files from an AFP server, Leopard is not having the file inherit the permissions of the parent folder. It is inheriting the permissions of the file within /Volumes.
I am accessing an AFP share point on a server that has files that are 644 (readable by everyone, but only writable by the owner). I am not the owner. When viewing the AFP volume on my client within /Volumes/whatever the permissions appear to be 400 (unwriteable by the owner, no access to anyone else). When I copy the file over to desktop, the permissions remain as 400 when they should obviously be 600.
What does this mean? Even though I am NOW the owner, and it is on MY desktop, I am unable to write to the file unless I chmod it. Very, very annoying and this behavior is unique to Leopard. Tiger does not mangle the permissions.
The server is ubuntu-8.10-server running Netatalk.
The test clients are Leopard 10.5.5 and Tiger 10.4.11
On the server:
$ pwd
/srv/www
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1024 2008-11-23 23:29 test.doc
On the Leopard client:
$ pwd
/Volumes/www
$ ls -l
-r-x------@ 1 sauce staff 1024 Nov 23 23:29 test.doc
$ cp test.doc ~/Desktop
$ ls -l ~/Desktop/test.doc
-r-x------@ 1 sauce staff 1024 Dec 7 00:21 /Users/sauce/Desktop/test.doc
Message was edited by: iSauce

I don't believe this is a problem of leopard in general. i can not reproduce this behavior with any of my afp shares. no matter how i connect (as an owner or as a guest) after I copy something to the desktop it gets standard 644 (not 600) permissions.

How can I resolve slow browsing in finder when connected to a share point on a linux box?

Hi,
I am having huge difficulties when browsing a share point that is on a Linux box. I am connecting to it with a Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.5.
Initially there was an SMB share point setup on the server which was extremely slow to browse. I then setup an AFP sharepoint thinking that would help with the issue but it hasn't made a difference at all. The issue is that files take forever to load when browsing using Finder. Moving between folders on the sharepoint takes extremely long since files are slow to load.
There are very few options available on line to help with this and so far none of them have worked. I think the problem is with Finder and the way it indexes the files but I could be wrong.
Please help!
Nabeel

Hey Brenda, this isn't 'Safari' I believe this is your Modem/Router to solve this issue please look on the bottom/side of your internet box, and find the codes. But I also believe, when starting up your modem/ Internet box when you first actually received it you had to sign up, this is the only way in order for you to receive this message. Please contact your Internet providers.
Try Uninstalling Safari!
Have you tried to press cancel to see if that helps?
See if this happens on any other browser
CorrellBest

Different passwords for different share points on 1 server?

On a lion server I have two share points.
A 'general' is accessible for all users, a 'confidential' is for a select group of users.
The permissions are set and the select group have their server access password in their key chain.
The server password is stored in a separate key chain ie. not in the login key chain.
The select users connect to the server and allways mount the 'general' share point.
The 'confidential' share point is mounted only when needed and unmounted afterward.
Problem is when the users walk away from their computer and forget to lock the computer or to completely disconnect from the server, which is generally very inconvenient because of open documents.
"Unmounting" the confidential share in my setup is not really putting it away securely because at that moment, anyone can sit down at that computer and mount 'confidential' because the login credentials were already given when mounting 'general'.
Is there any way, lest having Parallels running another Lion server that shares the 'confidential' mount point, to force users to enter a password before 'confidential' can be mounted WHILE 'general' IS ALREADY MOUNTED?
In other words, can credential exchange be tied to share point mounting time rather than to server connection time and thus be different for different shares and allow for share-specific unmounting, effectively locking it away?

Has nobody done this before?

How can i upload two different logos for 2 sub sites [which falls under one super site ] in share point 2013 ?

hello,
How can i upload two different logos for 2 sub sites [which falls under one super site ] in share point 2013 ?
thanks,
Jay

Hi,
I understand that it applied first logo to all other sub sites.
Please make sure that you change the logos in the subsites.
If we change the logo in the root site, the logos in the subsites will be changed at the same time.
However, we can change the logo in the subsites separately.
We can go to a subsite, click the Site Sitting-> Look and Feel-> Title, description, and logo->Insert Logo->select a picture, then it will has a different logo than the root site.
Then go to the other subsite, click the Site Sitting-> Look and Feel-> Title, description, and logo->Insert Logo-> select another picture, then it will has a different logo that the first subsite.
Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

Saving the data from two info path forms in to a single list in share point 2010

Hi ,
I have two info path forms are in share point page FM 1 and FM 2.
In FM 1 I am getting data from lists by using drop down and casket drop down and FM 2 i need to enter manually after entering
i want to save both forms information(FM 1 & FM 2 ) in to a single list of share point 2010
If any knows the solution please reply me
Thanking You,
Arun Darly

Hi，
Based on your description, my understanding is that you want to save the data from two info path forms in to a single list in share point 2010.
We can't save the data from two info path forms in to a single list, but we can
save the data from two info path forms in to a single library.
Open the FM 1 and FM 2 in Infopath(you have save it Locally once).
Publish the FM 1 and FM 2 as content types named FM 1 and FM 2.
Add the content types FM 1 and FM 2 into a document library, Then you can save the data
from two info path forms in to a single library.
Best Regards,
Lisa Chen
Lisa Chen
TechNet Community Support

Automount share point

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for